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...Broadway is more than a personal one for Shaffer. It is also a tribute to the vitality of British theater. Once again this year Broadway has imported much of its excitement from London. Apart from Equus, the two most highly praised new plays are Alan Ayckbourn's farce Absurd Person Singular and Peter Nichols' black comedy The National Health. And next week the Royal Shakespeare Company's Sherlock Holmes will arrive from Washington, B.C., where it has played to record audiences...
...also wishes everyone and everything would go away; he especially wants his chief aide to clam up. But the aide insists on telling his honor about the most absurd caper ever to hit Manhattan Island. Four men with automatic weapons have hijacked a subway car. They are holding it, 17 passengers and a conductor for $1 million ransom. The city has exactly one hour to get up the cash. For every minute past their deadline, the hijackers promise to shoot one of the hostages...
CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM: The executive power should be reinforced. A stronger executive would enable a government to work far more effectively. Under the old constitution, we needed six months to pass a law. That is absurd. Under such conditions it was nearly impossible for Parliament to produce the kind of legislation the Greek people needed. I tried hard before leaving Greece in 1963 to revise the constitution. I failed. I had a quarrel with the crown and the opposition, and because I failed to revise the constitution I left Greece. I knew that without revising the constitution, democracy here was impossible...
...Green Velvet. To compare Friedrich as a romantic to his great English contemporaries Turner and Constable is absurd. It also distorts the actual nature of his achievement. English romanticism always had an intensely realistic strain; its ecstasies of involvement with nature came from a meticulous observation of growth and form. This rarely happens with Friedrich, whose work (see color opposite) often had the peculiarly stiff and abstract character of a landscape assembled from prototypes. There is, for example, no way of reading Traveler Looking over the Sea of Fog (circa 1818) as a real scene; with his wind-blown hair...
...resolved never to communicate with Simon again, considering him lost to his common Irish biddy, she is forced by financial hardship to ask his charity. She does so only after great deliberation, and then almost instantaneously decides to become a loving mother-in-law as well. This unnatural, almost absurd changes of heart towards Sara makes Deborah's subsequent rapport with her hard to swallow...